RaveThe Los Angeles Review of Books\"...urgent and haunting ... Written in clear, short, lyrically powerful prose for a non-Uyghur readership, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night weaves across time to illustrate the slow but steady destruction of Uyghur society. The intimacy of Tahir’s portrayal personalizes an urgent humanitarian crisis that to this point mostly has been represented by satellite images of newly constructed prisons and a widely circulated photo of nameless blue-clad inmates sitting in rows surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. Tahir lets us into his innermost thoughts and his innermost quarters ... it is also a celebration of freedom (a word many of us who have not been made unfree have an uneasy relationship with), love, faith, family, friendship, dignity, compassion, place, and poetry. In fact, one of the great, albeit sobering, treats of Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is Freeman’s translation of six of Izgil’s poems.\
